Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence…you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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This film was pivotal in my life, not so much because it was my first successful effort as a producer and director, but because Hitler was so fascinated by this film that he insisted I make a documentary about the Party rally in Nuremberg. The result was Triumph of the Will.
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Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence…you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.
